Best tool/library to generate PDF documents in .NET?

2 points by bekzat_karayev 5y ago ↗ HN

At my job I need to make many documents like tickets, bills, contracts in PDF format, some of them have a quite complex design. I would like to create bunch of templates and then fill them with data from json, xml files or exported from some remote database.

I mainly work on .Net apps and do programming in C#. I found some solutions online, but I don't know which one to choose, most of them seem to focus on just converting from other formats like html to pdf, but I need to basically create PDF files from scratch with code.

I wonder if anyone encountered such need and would be grateful for any suggestions for a cheap and easy-to-do solution from your own experience.

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daleholborow 5y ago ↗

Aspose and syncfusion are two that come to mind

bekzat_karayev 5y ago ↗

Thank you, those seem to be quite versatile tools, I will look into them.

frytaz 5y ago ↗

It converts from html to pdf but it works really well, You can generate html from templates with your data. Used it in many projects

https://www.nuget.org/packages/Wkhtmltopdf.NetCore/

bekzat_karayev 5y ago ↗

Thanks, this one seem to also have a view engine, I will check it out what templates does it provide.

bekzat_karayev 5y ago ↗

Searching in the recently updated nuget packages I came across this Pdfflowlib library: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Gehtsoft.PDFFlowLib/

Examples that this library provide look pretty neat: https://github.com/gehtsoft-usa/PDF.Flow.Examples/tree/maste...

I'll try to use them as a starting point for building my docs.